The votes are in and NDP
incumbent John Horgan will
serve another four years in
the B.C. legislature.
Horgan said he is pleased
to have been successful and
even with a Liberal majority
he will continue to do his
best. He had every expectation of the NDP forming the
next government.
Horgan said there is no
Liberal representation in
the Capital Regional District
and only two Liberal members on Vancouver Island.
“It means the government
will have to work extra hard
to understand the issues
here. I’m hopeful Christy
will talk to us.”
Horgan in analyzing their
loss, said it seems to demonstrate that a negative
campaign is a successful
campaign. He said Adrian
Dix stuck to the issues while
the Liberals bombarded the
public for 18 months on the
negativity of Dix and the
NDP.
“It put doubts in their
(the voters) minds. It’s no
excuse,” said Horgan, “we
didn’t run a very good campaign. It clearly was not a
winning campaign or the
outcome would have been
different.”
Horgan also felt that the
results show an “Americanization” of British Columbia

John
Horgan

—MLA

with two parties.
As for the showing by the
Green Party in the seat won
by Andrew Weaver from
incumbent Ida Chong, Horgan said they would have to
wait and see how Andrew
Weaver does.
“He does demonstrate
to the people that he’s relevant.”
He said the “industrial
heartland” of the province
rejected both the NDP and
Green platforms.
“There are so many people despondent today,” he
stated.
As for the polls which
called for an NDP win, Horgan said the public opinion polls are not worth the
paper they are printed on.
“Here on the Island the
voters are pretty negative to
the government and I hope
they are not vindictive.”
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four years,” said Horgan on

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Wednesday. “I’m grateful for
the support I did get. I get
a real positive response in
Sooke.”
He said there are a lot of
people “glum today.”
Horgan topped the polls
with11,272 votes (53.58 per
cent), trailed by Liberal Kerrie Reay with 6,513 (30.96
per cent) and finishing with
3,253 (15.46 per cent).
The Liberals have won
50 seats, the NDP 33, Green
Party one and Independent
one in the province. Of the
eligible voters only 52 per
cent came out to cast their
ballot. Liberal party leader
Christy Clark did not win
her seat in Vancouver-Point
Grey, NDP David Eby took it
with a margin of 785 votes.
It’s back in the saddle for
Kerrie Reay. After her run
for the Liberal seat in the
Juan de Fuca riding, Reay is
obviously very happy with
the results.
“Getting 6,513 votes, I
think we did really well,
that’s 31 per cent of the
votes in a tight time line,”
said Reay a couple of days
after the election.
Reay said she had a very
small local volunteer group
coming in late in the game,
the showing she made was
excellent.
Now, it’s back to work,
although she never stopped
her work as a councillor for
the District of Sooke.

Continued on page 3

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Logging is taking place on DL 569, close to China Beach on property owned
by developer Ender Ilkay.

District Lot 569, one of
the properties owned by
Ender Ilkay, is being logged
by a partnership between
the Pacheedaht First Nation
and Anderson Pacific Forest
Products and managed by
Queesto Community Forest.
“Here’s the fact,” said
Ender Ilkay. “When the zoning application was turned
down, myself and my partners thought we would give
it six months to see if any
level of government would

step forward. We gave it 18
months as we looked for
a solution. This was not a
knee jerk reaction. We’ve
been dealing with this for
five years. It’s just time.”
Angus Hope, P.Eng., RPF,
heading the logging of the
property said they bought
the timber on the stump on
DL 569 from Ilkay.
Some of the timber will be
destined for overseas mar-

Continued on page 2

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The Flower Section
at Sooke Fall Fair is
always a crowd pleaser.
Last year’s exhibits
were stunning, partly
due to ideal weather
conditions. We often
hear regrets from the
public that they didn’t
bring a comparable or
better entry than the
one displayed… so
bring it in this year and
win the ribbon.
Our Judges (Master Gardeners) tell us
that the most common
mistakes can be easily
corrected if entrants
read the schedule,
follow the rules precisely, and have a good
understanding of class
descriptions (i.e. what
is a spray, a spike, etc.).
In order to avoid disqualification be sure to
check the definitions
listed in the catalogue.
Some important tips
to follow:
1. Plan ahead days or
even weeks before fair
time.
2. Choose the correct
container(s) and be
sure they are clean.
3. Ensure entry is free
from bugs and free from
leaf and bloom damage.
4.
Ensure
any
mechanics used to stabilize the entry are not
visible (i.e. paper, foam,
etc.).
5. Bear in mind that
judging is done when
the judge sees the
exhibit; what is cut in
the evening may not
appear the same the
next morning.

6. Name the variety
as best you can but
limit the information.
7. Don’t overdo
accessories where permitted.
8. When you place
your entry on the table,
be sure the best side is
forward.
9. Bring extra specimens for those last
minute accidents --they
can happen!
10.Before cutting,
examine your blooms
carefully--you don’t
want to leave the best
entry in the garden.
Helpful hints:
- Flowers should be
about 1-1/2 to 2 times
the height of the container.
- Cut stems a few
inches longer to allow
for later trimming.
- Place stems in lukewarm water after cutting then place in a
cool spot several hours
before showing.
Watch for the Sooke
Fall Fair 2013 Catalogue
available later next
month. Kelly Keys, Section Head for Flowers
will have new categories this year commemorating the Fair’s 100th
Anniversary.
The
“tea
cup”
arrangement should
be a popular class
this year. And speaking of tea, come to the
monthly Fall Fair Flea
Market, Sat., May 25,
10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the
Sooke Community Hall,
have a cup of tea and a
crumpet or scone, find

out what’s happening
and become a volunteer for this very special fall fair, “Our First
100 Years.”
Thanks to Carol
for judging information. She will be glad
to answer any of your
questions and can be
reached through Ida,
Sooke Fall President
@250-642-4110.
We need the public’s
help!
In 1913 Sooke held
its first Fall Fair. One
hundred years later the
Sooke Fall Fair is still
going strong.
To compile a complete history of our
Fair we need assistance from the public.
We have most of the
Fall Fair catalogues
from 1950 to 2012 but
are missing: 1960, 1961,
1964, 1965, 1969 and
1973. If anyone has copies of these we would

like to scan them for
our collection.
We are also looking for any information from 1913 to 1949;
this could be pictures,
entry tags, ribbons,
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where, the fall fair
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phies, many were
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entrants. Our goal is to
We’re here to help constituents
locate as many of these
trophies as possible
with Federal government programs
and record the history
and services.
of the trophy. We have
been quite successful
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in finding most of them,
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Up
Sooke

Kerrie Reay talks about the election
Continued from page 1

PLAY DATE

The sooke hArbour
Players are
presenting fawlty
Towers 3. A very
british comedy, at
emCs theatre on may
24 and 25. Three
performances, friday
at 7 p.m.; saturday at
2 and 7 p.m.

DOG PARK
OPEN
HOUSE

AT CiTy hAll council
chambers on
Wednesday, may
29, 7 p.m. Council
is looking for public
input on a off-leash
dog park at the
Ponds Park Corridor
off Church road.

HONEY BEE
AwARENESS
DAY

Come ouT And find out
why honey bees are
so important to food
production at Tugwell
honey farm and
meadery, 8750 West
Coast rd., on may 25
from 12 to 5 p.m.
TAsTinG, fACe
PAinTinG, talks
and demos, tours,
contests and prizes.

Thumbs
Up!
To members of
the Ancient forest
Alliance who helped
bring an injured
person to the
ambulance from the
Avatar Grove trail.
Also To All those
citizens who took the
time to vote in the
provincial election.

NEWS • 3

The Fawn lilies are in full bloom throughout the area.

Pirjo Raits photo

Would she run again? She said she
likes the municipal piece and she
couldn’t really speak to if she would
or wouldn’t.
“I don’t like to close any doors,”
she said. Reay went on to say that
people should always consider their
options.
As a late comer into the political
arena, Reay said her knowledge of
the Liberal platform (80-pages) and
policies (370-pages) was lacking, but
she said she would have learned
them on-the-job if her run was successful.
“The skill piece is important,
knowledge can always be taught,”
she said.

At the all candidates meeting she
said the questions posed were very
specific and it was a challenge.
She was asked to run by the Liberals and she said it is always important for democracy to consider running as a candidate.
It was important, she said because
the B.C. Liberals had no one running
in the riding and people should be
able to vote for their party.
“They should have a candidate.”
All in all she said it was win-win for
her, she is not disappointed and it
was a great experience.
(Green Party candidate Carlos
Serra could not be reached as of
press time. Look for his comments in
a future issue.)

CounCil briefs

At the regular District
of Sooke council meeting on May 13, the following items from the
agenda were dealt with:
Public hearing and
public input:
A public hearing was
held for Bylaw 569,
Zoning Amendment
Bylaw (600-1) for 6535
Grant Road. Council
gave third reading to
the bylaw after receiving reports on fire
response times and
sewer serviceability.
The property owner
was looking to rezone
from Large Lot Residential R-1 to Small Lot
Residential R3 on the
.43-acre property.
Public input was
received on Development Variance Permit
for 7109 and 7111 West
Coast Road. Council
did not issue a Variance Permit varying
the location of the five
per cent amenity area
requirement to include
the Streamside Protection and Enhancement Area (SPEA). The
properties are mobile
home parks and the
reason for a variance
permit was to include
the landscape buffers
which surround the
mobile home park and
the SPEA on the property. The owner cannot
place any more new
homes in the park until

the five per cent amenity area requirement
within the MHP Zone
has been satisfied. The
owner wanted to place
more homes on the old
sewer field, leaving less
green space in the park,
said a tenant.
Council issued a DVP
for the two lots to vary
the location of the amenity area to include
the landscaped buffer
area surrounding the
park, the open spaces
abutting space #27 and
space 20 and the yard
space
surrounding
each home.
Council issued a
Development Variance
Permit for Silver Spray
Destination Resort.
Developer
Michael
Thornton said all of the
lots will be geo-teched
as well as structural
engineering reports for
every building.
Bylaws:
Bylaws adopted by
council include Bylaw
557, Sooke Core Sewer
Specified Area Cost
Recovery Amendment
Bylaw, the Five Year
Financial Plan Bylaw
2013 and the Bylaw
564 Property Tax Rate
Bylaw. For the financial plan and property
tax rate bylaws Councillors Bev Berger and
Kerrie Reay excused
themselves stating they
might be in conflict as

they sat on boards/
organizations which
receive funding from
the district. Councillor
Maja Tait was opposed.
Council gave first
and second reading
to Bylaw 570, Zoning
Amendment Bylaw and
waived the holding of
a Public Hearing. The
zoning was applied to
2083 Anna Marie Road
in error under Bylaw
270 and the error was
corrected returning
the property zoning to
Large Lot Residential.
Reports:
Council
awarded
$10,146 to the EMCS
Society for the Sooke
Youth Council project. Coun. Tait had
requested that the
district give the soci-

ety $15,000 but council said the amount
awarded brought the
grant to $15,000 if the
carried over surplus
they had was added to
their yearly grant.
Coun. Tait opted out
of the Promote Sooke
Task Force stating she
couldn’t do it due to
time restraints.
Council passed the
recommendation of the
F&A committee awarding the Sooke River
Bluegrass Festival Society $500; the Sooke
Philharmonic Society
for the Philharmonic
Fling $2,000. Coun. Tait
made a motion to have
council award the SPO
society $5,000, this
motion was defeated.
“Something is bet-

ter than nothing,” she
stated.
Boat launch expenditures totalling $4,000
was authorized by
council to cover a section of fence at Jock’s
Dock ($2,100); work on
the pump kiosk ($1,400)
and gutter and downspouts on the electrical
building ($500).
A question by Coun.
Tait was raised as to
how much the district has received in
launching fees at the
public boat launch.
The
answer
was
around $100. With the
money being collected
by Jock’s Dock, the
amount the district
would have received
was $1,000.
Mayor Wendal Milne

stated that it was a
convoluted and complex issue. He said the
last council authorized
work not on the water
and it involved access
and egress for fire protection. He said the gate
was never completed
or billed for. Director of
Finance Michael Dillabaugh said the district
was responsible for
those costs.
Under section 131 of
the Community Charter, Mayor Milne will be
bringing back for reconsideration the matter of
funding for the Sooke
Region Tourism Association in the amount
of $23,000. This will be
considered at the next
regular council meeting
on May 27.

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CALVERT HOUSE: home to many
From supplying provisions to goldseekers,
to a delightful riverside
family home and farm,
to a grazing meadow
for elk, the property
at the end of a narrow
winding lane, Calvert
Road, has seen it all.
Riverside, home of
the Ebbs-Canavans,
with its rambling family home, rustic farm
fences, a scattering of
grazing horses, a miniature pony and a venerable barn are encircled
by stately Douglas firs,
maples and ornamental trees. Pride of place
goes to a copper beech,
currently in deep purple hues.
The first immigrant
to settle on this riverside location was
a
French-Canadian
voyageur, Jean Baptiste Brule, who had
crossed the continent
from Quebec in the fur
trade. Married in 1831
to Marguerite, a T’Souke woman he had met
at the fur trading base
Fort Vancouver on the
Columbia River, he had
journeyed north with
his family after the
Oregon Treaty set the
boundary at the 49th
parallel in 1846.
Like others of his
group who wished
to settle alongside
the Sooke River to be
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ernment-established
T’Sou-ke Reserve No
1 as they could, he set
up camp there, establishing cattle and sheep
and growing crops for
feed, including growing
mangels at the lower
level along the river.
It was natural that
when the British-funded
VI Exploring Expedition
set out in 1864 with a
young T’Sou-ke hunter
and packer, Louis Lazzar, to guide them, that
they stopped to acquire
provisions from Brule’s
pioneer holdings. With
the group’s discovery

of gold in a tributary
of the Sooke, the Leech
River received its name
and a gold mining camp
sprang up overnight.
The Brule homestead
became a regular stop
for provisioning the
miners with beef and
mutton.
It is our understanding that after Brule’s
passing at Victoria’s
St. Joseph’s Hospital
in the 1880s, the place
was left to the Catholic
Church. Pioneer cabins
and sheds remained
on the site when it was
purchased by Dr W. D.

Calvert who had the
house built in 1913 by
the Richardson brothers, as is shown in
this photo. Dr. Calvert
retired from an active
practice when he came
to Sooke with his wife
and four children, and
operated a small dairy
farm. One of the emergencies that called out
his medical skills was
the flu epidemic which
took several lives in
East Sooke.
In 1944 the Calverts
retired to Vancouver
and the property was
purchased by Elaine

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August 30, 2013.
Moss previously plead guilty
and was sentenced on November 14, 2010 for failing to file his
2006 personal income tax return
and for failing to comply with a
Compliance Order issued April
23, 2008 . The 2008 Compliance
Order required that Moss file his
outstanding 2003 to 2005 personal income tax returns. Prior
to the May 8, 2013 conviction,
Moss had been fined $18,500 by

The Canada Revenue Agency
(CRA) announced May 14, that
Sooke businessman N. Lawrence
Moss, also known as Larry Moss,
plead guilty and was sentenced
in Victoria Provincial Court on
May 8, 2013, to one count of failing to comply with a Compliance
Order to file his 2003 to 2006 personal income tax returns. Moss
was sentenced to 30 days in
jail, to be served on weekends.
A new Compliance Oder was
issued requiring that outstand-

MacFarlane, who in
turn sold the acreage to a retired British
Army officer, Captain
Mottershead, who pastured horses and sheep
on the secluded site.
Since 1978 the property has been home to
a Mottershead granddaughter, Carol Anne,
her husband Ken EbbsCanavan and their family.
Elida Peers,
Historian
Sooke Region
Museum

the courts for non-compliance.
The preceding information
was obtained from the court
records.
When taxpayers are convicted
of failing to file tax returns, in
addition to any fines imposed by
the courts, they must still file the
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of taxes owing, plus interest
owed, as well as any civil penalties that may be assessed by the
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Delivering the goods for the Food bank
Every Penny Counts

Britt Santowski
Sooke News Mirror

In previous years,
Sooke’s Canada Post
held a one-day food
drive to support our
community food bank.
This year, they are
extending their window-of-opportunity
from one day to one full
week.
Sooke’s Canada Post
branch office will be
hosting a week-long
food drive for the Sooke
Food Bank. Starting on
Monday, May 27 and
running until Saturday

June 1, the post office
will be accepting any
and all donations made
any time during regular
operating hours.
“Canada Post is up
for the challenge to
feed those in need in
our community,” said
Elleen Christofferson,
speaking on behalf of
the entire team. “We
look forward to seeing
our regular customers
and any one else interested in contributing to
the food bank.”
To express their
thanks to the community, the entire staff at
Sooke’s Canada Post
office will be donating

Sooke
Co-operative
Association
of Service
Agencies
now doing
business as
CHI

The Shirley Market kicked off it’s annual weekly event this past
sunny Sunday. Here, Amanda Smith, the International Arts Director is
setting up the display of paintings by Christopher Lucas.
The market is open from 10:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.

Two major
organisations
get together to
promote health
and well-being
Sooke Region Community Health Initiative (CHI)
and Sooke Co-operative
Association of Service
Agencies (CASA) have
been serving Sooke region
residents for the past
decade, supporting community health and wellbeing. They are now combining their efforts and will
work together as “Sooke
CASA doing business as
CHI.”
Both group have been
very active and have
started innovative pro-

grams in the community,
such as the Youth Clinic,
Sooke Youth Council, and
Food CHI. CHI is currently
developing a Sooke Region
Volunteer Centre and is cosponsoring a Seniors Connections initiative. A newly
arrived East Sooke resident
Linda Nehra, who comes
with extensive experience
of running health services
in Manitoba, said ”this
amalgamation is what we
have been waiting for. As a
member of CHI I have seen
how much of an impact
people can have at the
local level to improve services in our region. When
CASA and CHI join forces,
we will have more of a
voice to advocate for the
resources people need!”
There will continue to
be more opportunities to

home-made treats on
Wednesday, May 29
as a form of customer
appreciation. Coffee
and tea will also be
made available.
Swing by any time
during the last week of
May to give to the food
bank at Canada, and
drop by on Wednesday
anytime between 9 a.m.
and 4 p.m. to receive.
They are located at
6736 West Coast Road.
The Sooke Food
Bank gives food to the
most needy in the community, filling the cupboards of 440 households in Sooke and area
each month.

get involved and develop
ideas for improving health
across the community. A
great way to participate
will be to join the co-operative and possibly even
become a member on
the Board. To have a say
in this and to learn more
please attend the AGM on
June 5th, 12 noon at 2145
Townsend Road.
Mitzi Dean, Pacific Centre Family Services Association’s Executive Director
is the current chair of CASA
and said: “The Sooke and
region has a very active,
supportive community, it
is a wonderful experience
to work with everyone and
see the changes we make.
We’re excited about opening up the membership
and working with more
people.”

‘Natural’ method of building comes to Sooke
With
increased
attention being drawn
to energy efficient
and environmentally
friendly homes, a workshop being offered by
a natural builder is
timely. People with sensitivities, allergies and
an awareness for their
environment may find
this another way to
build.
KC Natural Homes,
in association with the
EcoNest Building Company, will host a building workshop this summer in Sooke from July
15 to August 1 covering timber framing, clay
and fibre wall construction, wall plastering
and roof construction.
“We use natural
materials and homes
are built with a minimum of toxic chemicals
(such as glues which
contain formaldehyde,
particle board),” said
Keary Conwright, the
host for the workshops.
The workshop starts

with a week of timber
framing, which gives
hands on experience
in mortise and tenon
timber joinery - a true
craft. It offers a unique
opportunity to work
with timbers as well
as with others of like
mind. For some, this
experience could be a
doorway into the rich
world of wooden architecture and perhaps
the beginnings of a
career in timber framing. Regardless of your
intent, the process of
transforming a tree
into one of the “bones”
of a home is magical,
explains Conwright.
“It’s a rather intensive three weeks and
is an opportunity for
people to learn a lot in
a short time.”
The clay and fibre
(straw and/or wood
chip) wall is the core
of the Econest building
system. In this four day
workshop learn how to
efficiently wrap a build-

Submitted photo

All hands on deck typify the cooperative building of a home. Here,
students are raising the timbers for a natural build home.
ing with a 12” thick
blanket of dynamic
insulation for health,
comfort and building
longevity. Called “light
clay” construction, the
walls provide a balance
of thermal mass and
insulation and allow

the free diffusion of
water vapour through
the wall.
The next step is finishing the walls with
natural clay plaster.
The purpose of plastering is to provide a durable, healthy and beau-

tiful protective surface.
In the hands of a master craftsman, natural
plaster work can be
an art form. Students
will be instructed by a
master plasterer and
gain valuable hands-on
experience plastering

an EcoNest wall.
Finally, with their
growing confidence,
the students will learn
basic roof construction
and build the major
components of this all
important “hat”, which
will protect the walls
and direct many millions of gallons of water
over the life of the
home. A well-executed
roof should not only be
beautiful, but last for
many years.
The
workshop
will be directed by a
renowned expert in the
field of natural building,
Robert Laporte of the
EcoNest Building Company. Also, there will be
a one-day seminar by
an award winning ecoarchitect and building
biologist, Paula Baker
Laporte, FAIA, called
“Homing in on your
nesting instinct.” This
seminar will be of particular interest to anyone planning to create
a custom home and will

address how to get the
most out of the process
through incorporating
natural building, health
and ecology.
No experience is necessary to take any of
the workshops or segments, but one has to
be capable of the physical task.
The site for this
building/learning project is at 7708 West
Coast Road, just minutes from the town of
Sooke. There is room
for camping on site and
natural healthy lunches
will be provided. For
details about the workshop program, including an excellent video
showing the steps of
the workshop, see the
Econest website www.
econest.com.
Keary Conwright is a
natural home designer
and builder living in
Otter Point.
www.kcnaturalhomes.com.

SOOKE NEWS MIRROR - Wednesday, May 22, 2013

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Calling it a day after 37 years at John Muir
Sooke News Mirror

One of Sooke’s most
dedicated Kindergarten
teachers will be retiring
after contributing 37
years at John Muir elementary school.
Born in Kelowna B.C.,
Carolyn Wyngaards
began her teaching
career in 1969, after
completing her teaching degree at the University of Victoria. Back
then, she recalls, one
could get a degree and
actually receive a job
offer upon graduating.
Wyngaards taught her
first year at Marigold
elementary in Victoria,
then moved over to
Penticton, and finally
landed in Sooke in
1974. And to the good
fortune of her early students (and now, their
children), there she
stayed! After dabbling
in other grades, Wyngaards ultimately found
her teaching niche with
kids at the Kindergarten level.
“The children come
in fresh. I like that age
of child,” said Wyngaards. She finds that
teaching at that level
can be more relaxed
and more intuitive in
approach. The learning
can be more integrated
in the moment, so if a
child comes in with an
earthworm in hand,
that can shift the focus
of the moment. This

250 415-8769

FOCUS DRIVING SCHOOL

door closes, another
will open. Wyngaards
just doesn’t know what
lies beyond it just yet.
And that is the beauty
of her next adventure.

Carolyn Wyngaards with her current group of Kindergarten students at John
Muir elementary school.
intuitive-based teaching style, she admits,
comes with experience.
That is part of the
appeal. The other is
that “kids (at that age])
are just so hilarious.”
In her near fourdecades of service,
Wyngaards has seen
many teaching trends
come and go.
“I think the biggest
change for me was the
move to integrate special needs students into
the regular classrooms.
There are many, many
positives about this
move and these children invariably teach
all of us more than we
often teach them! But
there never seems to
be enough support provided for them, and the
impact of this policy
on everyone is significant.”

As a teacher, Wyngaards has impacted
a few generations in
Sooke. In recognition,
John Muir will be hosting a “retirement gathering” at Mai Mai’s restaurant on the corner
of Townsend and Sooke
Rd. It is planned as a
drop-in event, and will
run from 6:30 to 8:30
p.m. on Thursday, May
30.
“I really, really hope
to see a bunch of my
old students and their
parents, and maybe
even a few colleagues,”
said Wyngaards. “But
mostly I want to see my
old ‘Kindy Kids.’ I will
have class photos up
so you can find yourselves and your classmates.”
Mai Mai’s kitchen will
be open, and guests
are welcome to buy

dinner, appetizers, or
just come to wish Wyngaards well in her next
phase of life.
And what does that
look like? Well, for starters, there’s a whole lot
of “not knowing.” She
will join her husband
Bill in retirement, who
retired in 2004. Reading, gardening and travelling at her leisure -without the time limitations of a full-time job -are on the list of things
to do.
When the school year
ends, Carolyn Wyngaards will be packing
up her teaching toolkit,
filling it with a massive
amount of memories,
and walking out of the
John Muir doors one
last time. On her final
exit, she will definitively close that door
behind her. And as one

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Be careful what
you wish for
After more than four years of acrimony,
protests, righteousness and bitterness on all
sides, it seems the ‘environmentalists’ didn’t win
after all. One of the sites where the Marine Trail
Resort was to go is now being logged.
Ender Ilkay was prevented from building
his resort, which would have consisted of
257 vacation cabins, a lodge and a recreation
building. Jobs would have been created for those
folks who live in the Port Renfrew and Jordan
River areas and tourists would have come to
enjoy the area along the Juan
It’s not much de Fuca Trail.
Well, the powers-that-be
of a park now and
the environmentalist
prevented that and now the
and it sure
loggers with feller bunchers
isn’t pretty.
are demolishing the lot for
the wood. Not such a nice
scenario but Ilkay had no
choice. He was sitting on over $5-million dollars
worth of property he could do nothing with,
except log it for the timber or sell it. But who
would buy a property they can’t do anything
with? Can’t blame him for trying to recoup his
losses but, now everyone loses. Close to 86 per
cent of the property Ilkay owned would have
been saved as undeveloped areas and parks. It’s
not much of a park now and it sure isn’t pretty.
The question here is, what would have
been better? Tourists who come to enjoy our
magnificent scenery and stay in cabins close to
the trail or a clear view to the water through a
relative clearcut. As much hue and cry as there is
about clearcuts, sometimes, as in this case, they
are the result of way too much interference.
Perhaps there is a lesson here.

The pollsters, pundits and the
self-styled rebels of the B.C. Liberal
Party were struggling for answers as
their conventional wisdom went out
the window on election night.
In came the B.C. Liberals and
Christy Clark for a fourth term, with
a 50-seat majority that is stronger
than the one they took into the 2013
election.
“Welcome to the club,” Alberta
Premier Alison Redford wrote on
Twitter on election night, referring
to Redford’s own win in the face of a
wall of polls and pontificators saying
she was done.
Here’s the next thing to ignore
from the media experts who rub
shoulders with those pollsters and
political strategists. It’s all about the
negative ads, they will say, and NDP
leader Adrian Dix’s big mistake was
to run a “positive” campaign.
Rubbish. Was their long fight
against the harmonized sales tax
a positive campaign? Is piling on
sham environmental reviews for the
express purpose of killing industrial
projects a positive idea?
“Clearly our message didn’t get
out the way we wanted it to get
out,” Dix said after watching one of
the biggest comebacks in Canadian
political history.
That’s rubbish too. He got his
message out just fine, serving it up

in bite-sized pieces in a classic frontrunner’s campaign that cynically put
off the most difficult choices. He was
going to expand government, and
restrict industrial development to
appease urban voters.
Dix’s most dramatic policy shift
contributed to his undoing. Midcampaign, in a decision that surprised even his platform co-chairs,
Dix turned against the proposal to
twin the TransMountain oil pipeline
that winds across B.C. from Alberta
to Burnaby. Well, not the pipeline
itself, but the prospect of more oil
tankers in and out of Vancouver harbour.
At least now, more people will
understand that Vancouver has been
an oil port for nearly a century, and
that Canada’s future includes energy
development. More people should
also appreciate that environmental
assessment is not a political game.
Andrew Weaver made history
as B.C.’s first Green Party MLA. He
came out swinging against Clark’s
economic holy grail, development
of liquefied natural gas exports from
the North Coast.
Weaver calls LNG a “pipe dream”
that will never materialize. It will
be interesting to watch him as he
is proved wrong on that, and then
as he grapples with gas as a transition fuel that can be used to develop
clean energy infrastructure.
B.C. Conservative leader John

Cummins ran a distant third in his
Langley constituency, and his goal
of a breakthrough didn’t materialize anywhere. His idea of scrapping
the carbon tax on fossil fuels didn’t
impress many people, despite his
focus on rural and northern B.C.
Clark should heed the NDP on
at least one thing. Dix promised to
move B.C. election dates to the fall,
starting in 2017. The idea of giving
his anticipated government an extra
six months to govern the province
was uncontroversial when Dix proposed it in his party’s election platform, so Clark will probably proceed
with it.
Another NDP idea Clark should
adopt is getting the corporate and
union money out of election campaigns. She likely won’t, because her
party’s financial advantage is too
great, but the time has come for this
important reform.
The B.C. Liberals’ much-discussed
“balanced” budget will now be put
to the test over the next few months.
The legislature must be convened
by September to debate that budget.
This should be the last vote based
on an untested budget, and the first
of many scheduled fall legislature
sessions.
Tom Fletcher is legislative reporter
and columnist for Black Press
and BCLocalnews.com
tfletcher@blackpress.ca

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SOOKE NEWS MIRROR - WEDNESDAY, MAY 22, 2013

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LETTERS • 9

We asked: Were you pleased or displeased with the results
of the election, any why?

I was displeased because there
was a low voter turnout, which
makes it unfair that only half
the population is voting for the
whole province.

Displeased, because I wanted
the NDP.

Marisa Vieira
Sooke

Charlotte Cameron
Sooke

Seniors
need new
home
As of June, the
Seniors’ Drop-In Centre
will be displaced form
the firemen’s lounge. I
must say that the firemen have been very
good to have let us stay
in their facilities as long
as they have.
If you can remember,
they were uprooted
from their original
home on Sooke Road
due to the building
being sold.
I understand that the
Sooke seniors are the
only seniors’ group on
the Island that do not
have their own place.
Something must be
done to help them get
a permanent facility.
Since they were organized in 2004, they have
brought a lot of seniors
together who would
otherwise be sitting at
home alone and lonely.
The seniors, who
are your parents and
grandparents, have
come together and created an atmosphere of
friendship and companionship and in September will have no
place to go.
If anyone has any
ideas as to how the
seniors might be able to
get their own place and
will not be uprooted
every couple of years,
get in touch with organizations, the council
and anyone else that
you think might help.
These people are very
dedicated people who
have worked hard all
their lives and who now
love to get together,
mingle and have fun.

Pleased, because it’s all about
free enterprise.

Displeased. I was hoping
that the NDP would get in.
I have a three-year-old and
I'm concerned about cuts to
education.

Jerami Kennedy
Sooke

LETTERS

A Fisherman’s Friend

Fish culturist Duaine Hardie, from the Vancouver Island Trout Hatchery
in Duncan, is shown preparing to release 500 catchable rainbow trout
into Kemp Lake on April 30.
The Freshwater Fisheries Society of B.C. releases trout two times a
year, in the spring and fall, into lakes and rivers on Vancouver Island.
The fish are captive brood stock and their eggs are collected at the
hatchery, grown and then released. They are fast-growing Fraser
Valley rainbow trout. Approximately 80 lake and rivers on the Island
are stocked for a total of about 200,000 trout per year. This year marks
the 10th anniversary of the society, a non-profit organization who
works in partnership with the provincial government to deliver the
fish stocking program as well as providing conservation fish culture
services that support steelhead and sturgeon recovery programs.
Each and everyone of
them deserve this as
they are valued members of our society.
Mrs. Margaret Baxter
Sooke

Ponds park
wrong place
for dog
park

Shame on Sooke for
allowing the photo that
was used as the proposed off-leash dog
park!
If the camera would
have panned out about
another 20 feet or so
to the right you would
have seen all of the
backyards that are on
Pond Place all the way
up Acreman Place.
I am so against putting a dog park here
for a number of rea-

Jen Popiel
Sooke

have dogs and I can’t
imagine the noise from
all the barking that
would go on when they
get a “sniff” of all the
dogs running around
off-leash just outside
there backyards.
This is in response
to the public open
house on off-leash dog
park ad that was run
on Wednesday, May 29
2013.
Angela Cameron
Sooke
Editor’s note: The article was a press release,
not an advertisement
and the photo was taken
by the Sooke News Mirror, not the District of
Sooke.

FPirjo Raits photo

sons. First, it is right
out my front door, not
back but my front door.
Also there is no parking here except for
on the road and that
would be an inconvenience to the residents
here. As a home business owner I had to
make sure that there
was adequate parking
before I was approved
for a business license.
And finally, a lot of the
residents that live here

Feature listing

Problems
still exist
with hall
As a resident of East
Sooke on Raglan Place I
felt compelled to inform
you of the error in the
caption of the photo in
the May 1 edition.
It states the new fire
hall will be on Raglan
Place. In fact it will be
located on East Sooke
Road, down the road
from Raglan Place. I do

Cont’d on page 10

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Letters

Cont’d from page 9
realize that you are only
as good as the information or facts you are
given at the time of
your reporting. Please
do not feel slighted as
this is not my intention.
The residents of East
Sooke previously voted
to change the zoning
of the particular piece
of the parcel of land
where the new fire hall
will be built.
Concerning the existing fire hall on Coppermine Road, I believe
the intention is to use
it as a community hall.
Since the new fire hall
is being built because
the existing hall does
not meet seismic concerns and has issues
both mechanically and
electrically.
Do you think it will be
wise to use it as a community hall? God forbid
when the ‘Big One’ hits
and it is occupied for
a function. A far better solution would be
to level it and expand
the adjoining park. I
thoroughly enjoy your
publication and please
keep up the great work.
Clarence Gaber
East Sooke

Please
don’t
trespass
Dear Tomininy Road
residents,
This is an open letter to you to ask you
to stop trespassing on

my property. You cut
across the construction
site across the road
and onto my property
to use my driveway to
short cut onto Maple
avenue on a daily basis.
This has to stop.
You are trespassing on
private property.
You would think you
could read the huge
“DO NOT TRESSPASS,
PRIVATE PROPERTY”
sign on the end of my
driveway, either you
can’t read, or you don’t
care.
We have contacted
the police, and they say
if we can identify you
we can prosecute you.
We do not want to start
photographing you, but
we will if this continues.
We have children and
pets, and do not want
strangers on our property. You would not
want that to happen to
your property, so don’t
do it to ours.
It is not only teenagers, but full grown
adults with babies
in strollers, cyclists,
Buffy’s pub patrons,
and dog walkers who
disrespect our property by continuing to
use ours as a shortcut
to town.
Please show some
respect for your neighbors within your community, stay off our
property.
Thank you, in
advance.
Homeowners of 1912
Maple Ave.
Stephanie and Ken
Lumley
Sooke

User-friendly
trail guide
A new publication
of easy-to-use trails to
walk, wheel and hike
in the outdoors is now
available in Greater
Victoria. A Guide to
User-Friendly Trails is a
pilot project developed
through a partnership
between CRD Regional
Parks, the Intermunicipal Advisory Committee on Disability Issues
(IACDI) and West Shore
Parks & Recreation.
The guide contains
48 pages of full color
photographs, maps and
descriptions of userfriendly trails within
the Capital Regional
District parks and the
West Shore municipalities. The guide highlights trails that are
welcoming to all ages
and individuals with
diverse levels of mobility and endurance. It
provides visitors with
trail profiles and information to enable them
to determine which
parks and amenities
to visit based on their
own levels of ability.
In addition, A Guide
to User-Friendly Trails
highlights the benefits
of being active in the
outdoors. It showcases
local photographers’
images of beautiful
landscapes, native species and local residents
on the trails.
“A Guide to UserFriendly Trails is a new
tool created as a result
of the partnership to
show opportunities
that are suitable to individuals of diverse ages,
levels of mobility and

endurance,” said CRD
Regional Parks Committee Chair Susan
Brice. “Our collective
parks contribute to the
overall quality of life
and well-being of all
residents of the Capital
Regional District and
this guide reflects that.”
“West Shore Parks &
Recreation is dedicated
to providing diverse
and accessible recreation opportunities and
excellent experiences
for healthy active lifestyles,” said Bobbi Neal,
Community Development Coordinator of
West Shore Parks &
Recreation. “The UserFriendly Trail initiative
does this and more. It
is a true collaboration
that benefits the community.”
“The power of partnerships demonstrates
how together we can
do more through leveraging grant funding,
combining internal
resources, community
involvement and by fostering inclusion,” said
Marnie Essery, Chair of
IACDI. “We invite you
to use this guide to go
beyond the parking lot
and experience userfriendly trails in your
community.”
Pick up A Guide to
User-Friendly Trails at
Capital Regional District offices, recreation
centres, and Westshore
municipal halls. It is
available for download
at www.westshorerecreation.ca/userfriendlytrails.

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MeMbers of
the CoMMunity
of sooke:
The Sooke Food Bank needs your help; it
desperately needs donations in order to help
the 440 households in Sooke it provides for on
a monthly basis. Canada Post will be accepting
donations for the Food Bank from Monday May
27th to Saturday June 01st. Please stop by the
Sooke Main Post Office at 6736 West Coast Rd
for coffee and treats on Wednesday May 29th
in appreciation of your donations. In times of
need your generosity is greatly appreciated and
we know we can count on you to help out the
less fortunate individuals in our community.

Capital Regional District
Notice of

Juan de Fuca Electoral Area
Parks and Recreation Advisory
Commission
Regular Meeting
Juan de Fuca Electoral Area Office
#2 – 6868 West Coast Road
Monday, May 27, 2013 at 3 pm.
Public Welcome to Attend
For meeting confirmation or for further information,
please contact the JdFEA Planning Services Office at
250.642.1500.

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CALLING ALL STUDENTS !!
Sooke News Mirror and the Sooke Region Historical Society invite
students resident in the region from East Sooke to Port Renfrew to
enter a competition answering this question:

“EXPLAIN WHY NATURAL BEACHES ARE
IMPORTANT FOR TODAY AND THE FUTURE”
$50.00 PRIZES (5) to be awarded by Sooke Lions Club for the winning
essays selected from each elementary grade—1,2,3,4,5
(Essays should be from 50 –150 words)
$50.00 PRIZES (3) to be awarded by Royal Canadian Legion Branch #54
for the winning essays selected from each middle school grade-6,7,8
(Essays should be from 100 to 300 words)
$100.00 PRIZE (1) to be awarded by Sooke Community Association for
the winning essay selected from high school grade level student entries
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Mayor’s Public Advisory Panels
The public is invited to attend the Mayor’s Public Advisory Panel
meetings at the Prestige Resort Meeting Room:
- Economic Development - Steve Grundy, Chair – 3rd Thursday of
each month at 7:00 pm
- Arts and Beautification - Brenda Parkinson, Chair – 4th Thursday
of each month at 7:00 pm
- Community Health and Social Issues - Nicky Logins, Chair –2nd
Wednesday of each month 7:00 pm

Sooke and JDF Emergency Preparedness
Open House
The Sooke and JDF Emergency Preparedness Open House will be
held on Wednesday May 22nd in the District of Sooke Council
Chambers at 7:00 pm. Focus of the evening will be information on
the new CRD Tsunami Modeling study for the region as well as tips
on preparing your home for the upcoming wildfire season.

This schedule is subject to change.
Please call 250-642-1634 to confirm meetings.
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You
may
have
noticed an unusual
number of people carrying instrument cases
in Sooke, this week:
dining in restaurants,
staying in local B & B’s,
and strolling along the
waterfront.
Who are these people?
They are taking part
in the annual Sooke
Harbour
Chamber
Music Workshop, organized by the Sooke Philharmonic Society.
A total of 52 string
players, coached by
eight
professional
musicians, meet twice
a day or more, in 16 different venues that run
from Invermuir Road to
Sooke River Road.
About half the participants are or have been
Sooke Philharmonic
players, and come from
this area – Shirley to
Saanich, Saltspring to
Maple Bay. The other
half come from the
Lower Mainland, from
Manitoba,
Alberta,
Washington state, Oregon, and even California.
The workshop is
very popular and fills
up by February, mostly
by the same musicians
who return year after
year, says workshop
coordinator Jenny Nelson.
“It’s a good mix of
scheduled rehearsals
with and without our
coaches, and free time,
when some choose to
play other music with
different people, some
just relax or go to the
beach, and some have
even been known to
take a nap,” says Shirley resident Sue Innes,
Sooke Philharmonic
Principal second violin.
As with all Sooke
Philharmonic events,
the workshop relies
heavily on Sooke’s generosity and volunteers.
Almost all the venues
are contributed by
owners of B & B’s and
private houses. Journey Middle School, St
Rose of Lima and Holy

Musicians from across the region were in Sooke for a chamber music workshop. They stopped
in at the Little Vienna Bakery during a break.

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Trinity Church are also
part of the mix.
It’s no surprise
musicians come back:
everyone has a wonderful time.
Dorle Eason, a cellist from Langley, B.C.,
has been coming to
the Sooke workshop
for four years. “Making music with friends
for a week is like a holiday for the soul,” she
says. “The coaches are
fantastic and inspire
and challenge me to
reach higher and go a
step further musically.
All week we live and
breathe music in these
beautiful surroundings.
It’s like a dream.”
Upcoming performances with the Sooke
Philharmonic Orchestra include a 15th anniversary celebration
during the time of the
summer solstice. A
Solstice Celebration
will include the Three
Dances from the Bartered Bride by Smetana,
arias from Rusalka,
The Merry Widow
and more with soloist
Ingrid Attrot, soprano.
Listen to Symphony
No. 9, Op.96 (From the
New World) by Dvorak.

This all takes place on
Friday, June 21 at 7:30
p.m at the Sooke Community Theatre, 6218
Sooke Road and in Victoria on Saturday, June
22 at 7:30 p.m. at Alix
Goolden Hall, 907 Pandora Avenue.

Entertainment: 7 pm - 9 pm
Dinner Menu: Pasta Extravaganza with Lasagna,
Spaghetti with or without Meatballs, Pasta Salad, Caesar
Salad and desserts.
Ticket Prices: $20.00 Donation to the Food Bank
Tax receipts will be given for the donation at the event
(or before if required)

Black Press community newspapers will
chart a course alongside sailing yachts
from across the Pacific
Northwest for the Black
Press Van Isle 360° 2013
International Yacht
Race.
With a race organizer
in place, Black Press
announced its sponsorship of the event on
April 15.
Formerly known as
the Cadillac Van Isle
360° International Yacht
Race, the event, which
starts and finishes in
Nanaimo, has run since
1999 when Nanaimo
yachters Wayne Gorrie
and Janine Bell organized the competition
and attracted 14 boats
to circumnavigate Vancouver Island. The race
has run every other
year on the odd year
since 2001 and has
become the most challenging yachting event
in the region.
In 2011 Blast Performance Sailing acquired
the rights to the event
with Jeffrey Motley,
owner of the Vancou-

Submitted photo

Syvia and Jeffrey Motley organizers of the race.
ver-based company,
and his wife Sylvia
becoming the race’s
lead organizers.
“They were looking
for someone to take
it over and it was one
of those things where
the sailing community really didn’t want
to see the race disappear,” Motley said. “The
long and the short is we
decided to take it on
and keep it going.”
Black Press was
asked to sponsor this
year’s race because of
the news agency’s ability to provide in-depth
coverage both regionally and at a community level.
Mark Warner, presi-

dent of Black Press Vancouver Island operations, said he considers
being given the opportunity to become title
sponsor of the event an
honour.
“As our staff, readers and customers are
residents throughout
western Canada and
the U.S.A., we feel it is
important to invest and
participate in the activities and organizations
that make our communities a better place
to live and play,” Warner said. “Many of us
grew up on or near the
ocean, and we respect
the beauty and incredible experiences it has
to offer.”

Motley and Black
Press share the same
goals to promote the
race and the communities taking part, and
enhance Island tourism.
“What we want to do,
if we can, is build the
race to the same level
as the (Rolex) Sydney
Hobart Yacht Race in
Australia where people
wake up on Boxing Day
and watch a sailboat
race,” Motley said.
The Van Isle 360° is
truly an international
event with two-thirds
of entrants drawn from
the Island and Lower
Mainland, and one-third
of contenders from the
U.S. Pacific Northwest.
Motley is also trying
to make people aware
of the world-class levels of competition happening in local waters,
hoping they aspire to
race one day. The big
races are the drivers of
the industry.
“In the Pacific Northwest this is the race,”
Motley said. “Where
else can you have two
weeks of summer adult
camp, chasing everybody around the rock
and just having a great
time?”
It can be a dangerous

What’s Up in Sooke

venture, too. In 2011,
crews were hit with 100
k/hr winds in the Strait
of Georgia and one craft
struck a whale, shattering its rudder.
For 2013, race organizers are providing a
safety at sea course and
at least two crew members certified through
the course must be on
each craft for each leg
of the race. More than
350 sailors have been

put through the course
for this year’s event.
“One of most interesting aspects – and
we don’t know how big
it’s going to be – is the
potential for tsunami
debris off the West
Coast,” Motley said.
The Black Press Van
Isle 360° 2013 International Yacht Race runs
June 8-22. The dates are
determined by the timing of slack tides dur-

ing daylight hours in
Seymour Narrows near
Campbell River.
“All the planning
revolves around when
there are slack tides
so the boats can get
through,” Motley said.
For more information
about the Black Press
Van Isle 360° 2013 International Yacht Race,
please visit the event
website at www.vanisle360.com.

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Arts & Entertainment
SOOKE NEWS MIRROR - Wednesday, May 22, 2013

www.sookenewsmirror.com

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Discovering the secrets of West Coast gardens
Sooke Secret Garden Tour
set for June 2
Pirjo Raits

Sooke News Mirror

Sooke is a deceptive place. It’s not
all it’s made out to be and it is secretive.
For the past five years, avid gardeners and nature lovers have been
combing the Sooke region seeking
out it’s most intriguing and wondrous hidden treasures - of the garden variety.
The Sooke Secret Garden Tour is
in its fifth year and for one Sunday
in June, local gardeners volunteer
to showcase their gardens, farms
and green spaces. On Sunday, June
2, nine properties will be open for
viewing. Each year, the tour features
different gardens and this year the
properties stretch from Shirley to
around Saseenos and many places
in between. “We have the usual variety,” said organizer Margaret Lintern. “There are seaside ones, small
ones, whimsical and witty ones.”
One of the gardens on the tour
belongs to Eric and Irene Burns.
Their Maple Street property is a
combination of objects they love,
plantings that work in their yard
and a touch of humour.
The Burns spent many years in
Saudi Arabia and have incorporated

just a few mementos in their yard.
They have been working on their
garden since 2008 and spend many,
many summer hours in their labour
of love. Each year they built another
project, like the small waterfall or
the vegetable garden.
Irene does all of the planning and
the planting while Eric keeps the
notebooks of when things were
planted or harvested. They have
created a charming haven for themselves and their guests.
The tour offers glimpses of historic homes and farms, rocky hillsides, wilderness gardens and gazebos. It’s the perfect opportunity
to see what others have done and
what works in this West Coast climate.
The event is a fundraiser for the
Sooke Philharmonic Orchestra, a
semi-professional full-size orchestra
in its 15th year. The orchestra presents a full season of entertainment
for Southern Vancouver Island and
includes the Chamber Players and

the Philharmonic Chorus.
The Secret Garden Tour is best
visited in sequence. There will be
demonstrations and advice from
garden experts and music presented by members of the Sooke
Philharmonic Orchestra will be
heard in some locations.
Garden lovers are encouraged to
wear comfortable footwear and to
dress for the weather. If you wish
to purchase plantings, be sure to
bring along boxes or bags. Volunteers will be around each garden to
assist and a shuttle service is available to transports visitors at venues
5, 7, and 8.
Advance tickets can be purchased
in Sooke at Shoppers and Peoples
Drug Marts, and Double D Gardens.
Tickets on the day of the tour will
be available at Saseenos elementary
school, Shoppers Drug Mart and
Double D Gardens. For more information: www.sookesecretgarden.
com or call Sue at 250-642-1397 or
SPO 250-415-0999.

Sooke Community
Arts Council

Sooke Region Museum

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Pirjo Raits photos

Scenes from a gardener’s labour of love
at stop number three on the Sooke Secret
Garden Tour.

Madelin Pietre patiently waited for the cake
walk to start up again after the ducks crossed
the finish line and her wait was worth it as she
ended up in the right spot #8 winning a cake,
and her brother Jack gave her the bear which
he won at another game at the Sooke Duck
Race on May 11.

Submitted photos

Top left, Andrew
Ferguson caught
this mink in his lens
along the Sooke
Bluffs while Peris
Hughes took this
Zen-like
photo,
left, at the Sooke
Potholes.

Reader’s Photo of the
Week is sponsored
by realtor Ellen
Bergerud.
Send your good
quality jpeg photos to
the editor at: editor@
s o o k e n e w s m i r ro r.
com.
We
will
publish them as
space and colour
considerations allow.
Take the Sooke News
Mirror along on your
travels and submit
them to the editor
for inclusion in our
Where in the World
pages.
Photos taken by our
photographers can
be purchased on disk
for duplication.
The entire Sooke
News Mirror can
be viewed and read
on-line exactly the
same as the print
copy. Go to www.
s o o k e n e w s m i r ro r.
com and click on the
e-edition link at the
top of the web page
and select the issue
you wish to read.

A Guide to User-Friendly Trails
Go beyond the parking lot and pick up your copy of
“A Guide to User-Friendly Trails” featuring easy-to-use
walking, hiking and wheeling trails in Greater Victoria, BC.
Features:
• Trails suitable to individuals of diverse ages, levels of mobility and
endurance.
• Trail profiles and maps to enable users to determine which parks
and amenities to visit.
Pick up your copy at Capital Regional District Offices, West Shore Parks
& Recreation and municipal halls in the Westshore area.
Download it at www.westshorerecreation.ca/userfriendlytrails

Guided Walks
For all levels of fitness, options for the day include viewing only, small walks,
or longer hike to interpretative Kludahk tea hut through some snow. Car pool
trips up to the ridge and return will feature stops at semi alpine bogs, and
other woodland and forest areas to view wildflowers of interest.

Supported by:

Developed in partnership with:

Cost – minimum donation $20 per person.
To register and receive fundraising event and travel/trip info
email phoebetwin@shaw.ca or call 250 642 4342.
Charitable tax receipts can be issued.
Sponsored by Kludahk Outdoors Club and
Sooke Region’s Womens Cancer Support Group
All funds will go towards healing presentations and workshops for those
impacted by breast/ovarian cancers and the native healing garden

The Sooke News
Mirror loves to travel.
Top left, Fred and
Carole Whittaker
took the Mirror
along on their spring
venture to the island
of Hawaii.
Left, during Spring
break 30 students
from EMCS travelled
to
Ireland
and
Scotland. While in
Belfast, Ireland they
visited the Titanic
Museum.
Middle left, Lynda
Wristen
and
Katharine
Fisher
took the Sooke News
Mirror to a centuriesold cemetary
in
Ireland.
Bottom left, Bill
Wilson and Sharon
Branchaud visited
the Grand Canyon
in Arizona and the
Sooke News Mirror
went along for the
ride.

Submitted photos

Top right, Hola! On Jackie Dexter’s recent trip to Mexico she visited
the Mayan ruins of Coba-Quintana Roo and saw and climbed the
largest pyramid on the Yucatan Peninsula “Nohoch Mul” 138 feet
in height. Middle right, These lucky kids got to spend their spring
break together enjoying the warm Aloha sunshine. They are: from
left to right: Sydney Cumming, Alison Sudlow, Kailee Purnell, Desiree
Cumming, Billy Beecroft, Brandon & Grant Jay and in front Tyson
Purnell. It was taken in Kihei, Maui, Hawaii. March 25, 2013.
Bottom right, The Hearsey family went to Atlantis Resort on Paradise
Island, Bahamas and they took the Sooke News Mirror along.

SOOKE NEWS MIRROR - Wednesday, May 22, 2013

www.sookenewsmirror.com

• 21

lsland readers love their local newspaper
David Black believes in the power
of hometown connections
Teresa Bird
Black Press

my MBA,” says Black. “I ended up as a �inancial analyst for the Toronto Star for a couple
of years and started to like the (newspaper)
business. I particularly liked the weeklies.”
When his father told him that the Tribune
was being sold, Black asked if he could buy it.
“He just laughed and said, ‘Why do you think
I told you?’” recalls Black fondly. The young
Black family moved to Williams Lake “for a
couple of years” but “fell in love with small
town living” and stayed for a decade.
While there Black learned the business at
the grassroots level.
“I learned a lot about the weekly newspaper business,” says Black. “When somebody
left, whether it was an editor or a compositor
or a sales rep or a circulation manager or
… I ended up doing the job until we found a
replacement. I really helped me the rest of my
career because I actually know what it take to
do the job.”
And from Williams Lake, Black began to
expand his career and business. In 1980 he
purchased the Ashcroft Journal (now the Ashcroft Cache Creek Journal).
Today David Black lives in Victoria and
Black Press includes more than 190 publications, in B.C., the Prairies, Washington State
and a daily in both Hawaii and Akron, Ohio.
So why has Black Press been so successful?
“I understand business, I have a head for
business. But the trick is people. If you can
surround yourself with people who are really
good, you will succeed,” explains Black. “We
have really good staff.”
And that is part of the reason why community newspapers aren’t as threatened by the
internet, say Black.
“We are putting out as good a local paper
as we can afford editorially. It shows in the
numerous awards we receive every year and
our readership.” says Black. “I think weeklies
will continue very much the same, I don’t see
huge changes in towns the size of Sooke where

David Black in his Victoria office.

Sharon Tiffin photo

the local newspaper has the local information people
want. We have not seen any fall of readership in our
weeklies.”

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SOOKE NEWS MIRROR - Wednesday, May 22, 2013

Know before
you show
The Flower Section at Sooke Fall Fair is always a
crowd pleaser. Last year’s exhibits were stunning,
partly due to ideal weather conditions. We often
hear regrets from the public that they didn’t
bring a comparable or better entry than the one
displayed…so bring it in this year and win the
ribbon.
Our Judges (Master Gardeners) tell us that the
most common mistakes can be easily corrected
if entrants read the schedule, follow the rules
precisely, and have a good understanding of class
descriptions (i.e. what is a spray, a spike, etc.) .
In order to avoid disqualification be sure to check
the definitions listed in the catalogue.
Some important tips to follow:
1. Plan ahead days or even weeks before fair
time.
2. Choose the correct container(s) and be sure
they are clean.
3. Ensure entry is free from bugs and free from
leaf and bloom damage.
4. Ensure any mechanics used to stabilize the
entry are not visible (i.e. paper, foam, etc.).
5. Bear in mind that judging is done when the
judge sees the exhibit; what is cut in the evening
may not appear the same the next morning.
6. Name the variety as best you can but limit
the information.
7. Don’t overdo accessories where permitted.
8. When you place your entry on the table, be
sure the best side is forward.
9. Bring extra specimens for those last minute
accidents --they can happen!!
10. Before cutting, examine your blooms
carefully--you don’t want to leave the best entry
in the garden.
Helpful hints:
- Flowers should be about 1-1/2 to 2 times the
height of the container.
- Cut stems a few inches longer to allow for
later trimming.
- Place stems in lukewarm water after cutting
then place in a cool spot several hours before
showing.
Watch for the Sooke Fall Fair 2013 Catalogue
available later next month.
Kelly Keys, Section Head for Flowers will have
new categories this year commemorating the
Sooke Fall Fair’s 100th Anniversary. The “tea
cup” arrangement should be a popular class this
year. And speaking of tea, come to the monthly
Fall Fair Flea Market, Saturday, May 25,10-2 at the
Sooke Community Hall, have a cup of tea and a
crumpet or scone, find out what’s happening and
become a volunteer for this very special fall fair,
“Our First 100 Years.” Thanks to Carol for judging
information. She will be glad to answer any of your
questions and can be reached through Ida, Sooke
Fall Fair President at 250-642-4110.

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Notice of Public Hearings
Public Hearing 1

CRD JDf Bylaw
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5996306

Notice is hereby given that pursuant to Sections 890, 891 and 892 of the Local Government Act, that a Public Hearing:
Will be held at:
Otter Point Fire Hall
Located at:
3727 Otter Point Road, Otter Point, BC
On:
Monday, May 27, 2013 starting at 7pm
To consider adoption of:
Bylaw No. 3872 - cited as “Juan de Fuca Land Use Bylaw, 1992, Amendment Bylaw No. 116, 2013.”
The purpose of Bylaw No. 3872 is to amend Bylaw No. 2040, Juan de Fuca Land Use Bylaw, 1992, by creating a new Rural Residential
3 Kennel (RR-3K) zone, and deleting lands from the Rural Residential 3 (RR-3) zone, and adding to the Rural Residential 3 Kennel
(RR-3K) zone for the purpose of permitting a kennel on Lot 1, Section 31, Otter District, Plan 25582, except Plan VIP63956 (2276 Kemp
Lake Road), as shown on the map below.
The actual Bylaw should be reviewed to determine specifically
how particular lands may be affected.
All persons who believe that their interest in property is
affected by the proposed Bylaw will be provided an
opportunity to be heard, or to present written submissions, on
matters contained in the proposed bylaw. A copy of proposed
Bylaw No. 3872 and other relevant documents and information
may be inspected at the Juan de Fuca Planning Office,
2 – 6868 West Coast Road, Sooke, BC between the hours of
8:30am to 4:30pm Monday to Friday from May 8 to
May 27, 2013, excluding statutory holidays, and are available
from the CRD website at www.crd.bc.ca/jdf.
Written submissions should be sent to the Juan de Fuca
Planning Office, by mail to Box 283, Sooke, BC V9Z 0S9;
by email to jdfinfo@crd.bc.ca or by fax at 250.642.5274.
Written submissions should be received no later than
noon on May 27, 2013 to ensure availability at the Public
Hearing. Submissions will also be accepted at the Public
Hearing. Following the close of the Public Hearing, no further
submissions or comments from the public or interested
persons can be accepted by the CRD Board of Directors.
The Public Hearing on Bylaw No. 3872 will be held by the
Electoral Area Director, or Alternate Director, as a delegate
of the Board of the CRD. A copy of the CRD Board resolution
making the delegation is available for public inspection along with a copy of the bylaw referred to in this notice.
For further information, contact June Klassen, Manager, Local Area Planning at 250.642.1500 local 206.
S. Santarossa, Corporate Officer
Public Hearing 2
Notice is hereby given that pursuant to Sections 890, 891 and 892 of the Local Government Act, that a Public Hearing:
Will be held at:
Otter Point Fire Hall
Located at:
3727 Otter Point Road, Otter Point, BC
On:
Monday, May 27, 2013 after the close of the Public Hearing for Bylaw No. 3872
To consider adoption of:
Bylaw No. 3873 - cited as “Juan de Fuca Land Use Bylaw, 1992, Amendment Bylaw No. 117, 2013.”
The purpose of Bylaw No. 3873 is to amend Bylaw No. 2040, Juan de Fuca Land Use Bylaw, 1992, by creating a new Rural Residential A Kennel
(RR-AK) zone, and deleting lands from the Rural Residential A (RR-A) zone, and adding to the Rural Residential A Kennel (RR-AK) zone for the
purpose of permitting a kennel on Lot 28, Section 15, Otter District, Plan VIP87643 (3312 Otter Point Road), as shown on the map below.
The actual Bylaw should be reviewed to determine specifically
how particular lands may be affected.
All persons who believe that their interest in property
is affected by the proposed Bylaw will be provided an
opportunity to be heard, or to present written submissions,
on matters contained in the proposed bylaw. A copy of
proposed Bylaw No. 3873 and other relevant documents and
information may be inspected at the Juan de Fuca Planning
Office, 2 – 6868 West Coast Road, Sooke, BC between the
hours of 8:30am to 4:30pm Monday to Friday from May 8
to May 27, 2013, excluding statutory holidays, and are
available from the CRD website at www.crd.bc.ca/jdf.

We need the public’s
help!
In 1913 Sooke held its first Fall Fair. One hundred
years later the Sooke Fall Fair is still going strong.
To compile a complete history of our fair we need
assistance from the public. We have most of the
Sooke Fall Fair catalogues from 1950 to 2012 but
are missing: 1960, 1961, 1964, 1965, 1969 and 1973.
If anyone has copies of these we would like to scan
them for our collection.
We are also looking for any information from
1913 to 1949; this could be pictures, entry tags,
ribbons, section/class lists, trophies, prizes, newspaper articles, family stories, etc.
Over the years we have seen many trophies,
many were donated by businesses and some in
memory of Fall Fair volunteers or entrants. Our
goal is to locate as many of these trophies as possible and record the history of the trophy. We have
been quite successful in finding most of them, but
some elude us.
Please contact Sandy at sookefallfairemail@
gmail.com if you can help.

NEWS • 23

Written submissions should be sent to the Juan de Fuca
Planning Office, by mail to Box 283, Sooke, BC V9Z 0S9;
by email to jdfinfo@crd.bc.ca or by fax at 250.642.5274.
Written submissions should be received no later than
noon on May 27, 2013 to ensure availability at the Public
Hearing. Submissions will also be accepted at the Public
Hearing. Following the close of the Public Hearing, no further
submissions or comments from the public or interested
persons can be accepted by the CRD Board of Directors.
The Public Hearing on Bylaw No. 3873 will be held by the
Electoral Area Director, or Alternate Director, as a delegate of
the Board of the CRD. A copy of the CRD Board resolution making the delegation is available for public inspection along with a copy of
the bylaw referred to in this notice.
For further information, contact June Klassen, Manager, Local Area Planning at 250.642.1500 local 206.
S. Santarossa, Corporate Officer

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A look through the
Sooke News Mirror
archives:
May 21, 2008
New park hardware
on the way
Broom Hill Park will
get a facelift this this
August thanks to a local
group, Parents for Play.
When the groupâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
president, Mandy Truman, looks out across
the field behind the
parkâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s tired old jungle
gym she sees a space
that will have modern
play equipment and
paved paths to make
it wheelchair accessible and up to current
safety standards.
While this summer
will focus on new equipment, the group plans
to upgrade the water
park in future years.
The city has agreed
to thin the trees and
leave lights on at night
around the park to
improve safety and
reduce vandalism.

May 21, 2003
Remembering Jes
Sunday with lights
On Sunday night,
switch your porch light
on in memory of a missing Sooke teen.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;People can show
the Adkens family that
Jesokah is not forgotten by turning on
their porch light,â&#x20AC;? said
Rhonda Morgan, executive director of the
Missing Children Society of Canada (MCSC).
Jesokah was last
seen on the evening of
Sept 26, 2001, at a bus
stop just west of Saseenos elementary school.
Call the Sooke RCMP
at 642-5241 or the MSCS
at 1-800-661-6160 with
any information regarding Jesokahâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s disappearance
May 20, 1998
Good
Samaritan
pulls strings for puppy
A sick five-month-old
puppy made its way to
Saskatoon, Sask. Thurs-

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day for a special operation thanks to some
help from the community.
Dan Gilchrist read
about the plight of the
stray dog that needed
a heart operation and
Paulette Lheureuxâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
campaign to raise $100
for airfare in last weekâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
News Mirror.
The dog, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Wheezer,â&#x20AC;?
was put on a flight to
Calgary where Canadian Air transferred her
to a flight to Saskatoon.
Once she is healed, she
will be put out for adoption in Saskatoon.
May 19, 1993
Low prices at the
pumps fuel ongoing
gas war
No one will predict
when Sookeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s almost
two-month-long gas
war will end.
And local service
satin owners donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t
agree who started the
price battle.
The Save-on Gas
Monday morning price

for regular unleaded
gas was 41.9 cents
per litre. The Monday
morning price at a Victoria Payless Station
was 53.4 cents per litre.
The Monday morning price at Sookeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
Payless station was
41.9 cents a litre, but
manager Lois Rogers
wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t comment on
the price strife.
May 18, 1988
Minister to meet
board
After being badgered
incessantly in the provincial legislature by
MLA Moe Sihota, Education Minister Tony
Brummet finally agreed
to meet with the Sooke
School Board to discuss educational matters.
Trustees had asked,
unsuccessfully, for a
meeting with the minister to explain what they
considered are inequities in the educational
funding formula as it
applies to Sooke.

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Spring is here and the chickens are pecking at all
that lovely green grass and eating those worms in
the early morning rain.
The spinach is growing along with the herbs.
The egg yolks are golden in colour.
Now is the time to make a lovely quiche.
Quiche can be simple with or without a crust.
Prepare a simple pie crust, place in 10â&#x20AC;? pie plate,
prick with a fork and fill with the filling below:
Beat 6 to 8 large golden eggs. Set aside.
pick fresh spinach
chop 1/2 onion or cup of chives
2 tbsp. chopped oregeno
a pinch of salt and pepper
feta cheese
Chopped dried tomatoes
Saute spinach in pan with oil until just limp and
onions clear. Mix in with eggs and add 1/4 cup
chopped feta cheese and 8 slices chopped dried
tomatoes.
Put into pie plate and bake at 350â&#x20AC;&#x2122; F for 1 hour.
Variations are: bake without crust in a baking dish
or make with ham, cheese and egg, or whatever
is growing in your garden or available at market.
Saute swiss chard with a little onion and add to
egg with or without some swiss cheese.
The Country Market is opening this coming
weekend at on Otter Point Road.
Submitted by Ellen Lewers mrslewersfarmhouse@shaw.ca

The Sooke Bantam B girls with their medals after a long game against very worthy opponents. Inset: Kathryn
Ebert throwing one of her 140 pitches.

Britt Santowski
Sooke News Mirror

In a recent tournament, Sooke girls’ Bantam B team reached for,
and achieved, a gold
medal victory.
Playing in a tournament held at Richmond Girls Softball
Association, the undefeated Sooke Bantam B
girls (Sooke Cyclones)
entered into their final
play-off game, vying for
the gold/silver medal
against the Nanaimo
Breakers. They won
with a hard-earned
14 to 13 against the
Nanaimo Breakers.
The
game
was
scheduled to be seven
innings or two hours,

whichever came first.
Those limits were
exceeded as the teams
were tied, nine all, at
the bottom of the seventh. When this happens, international
rules apply, meaning
the teams were given
as many innings as they
need in order to score
a winning run. However, if the visiting team
(first at bat, at the top
of each inning) scores
a run, the home team
gets to go to bat to try
and score a run at the
bottom of that same
inning.
At the bottom of
the eighth inning, the
score was again evenly
matched, 11 each.
At the bottom of the

ninth, it was a 12-all
game.
At the top of the
tenth, Nanaimo Breakers got in another run,
giving them the lead
at 13 to 12 over Sooke.
Then, the Cyclones
went to bat and got
not one but two runs
they needed to finally
wrap-up the game. The
final score, after 10
innings, was Sooke 14
and Nanaimo — a most
worthy opponent — 13.
Starting pitcher was
Qu Lovbakke, who
pitched the first inning.
Kathryn Ebert pitched
eight innings, throwing
140 pitches in total. An
exhausted Ebert was
strategically replaced
by Hailey Dimock who

pitched the final inning.
“All the girls on the
team participated and
made great plays,” says
Donna Ebert, the proud
mother to one of the
pitchers Kathryn Ebert.
Team
members
include Kathryn Ebert,
Qu Lovbakke, Jaylin
Doumont, Emily Bernard, Shaylin Warren,
Cassidy Logan, Jessa
Katz, Hailey Dimock,
Hailey Bryant, Kama
Mollena, Rachel Able,
Jessie Power (absent)
and Alisha Norman
(absent). The team
is coached by Noreen Lovbakke, Tray
Lovbakke and Jason
Dumont.
With notes from
Donna Ebert

With the surprise
appearance of the sun
on Thursday, students
from Journey middle
school enjoyed an
afternoon skateboarding lesson at the Sooke
Sk8 Park.
As a part of the
school’s exploratory
program,
Debbie
Holmes of Langford’s
Side Step skateboarding school came to
Sooke to engage the
students in skateboarding exercises and drills.
Holmes is an avid
skateboarder herself,
and strongly advocates
education and safety.
All students participating in her classes are
required to wear helmets. Exercises ranged
in levels of difficulty,
and students were
encouraged to participate at their own level
of ability.
On June 29, there
will be a second annual
district-wide skateboarding competition,
in which teams from
EMCS and Journey will
be competing.
“This is all about
the school’s skateboard kids being part
of a school team and
representing
their
school with their awesome talent,” writes
Debbie Holmes in
an email. “This gives
them an opportunity
to shine not only for

Britt Santowski photo

Airborn, Merrick (above) from Journey middle school
enjoys skating in the sun while earning credits.
Bethany and Max (below) listen attentively as the
exercises are explained.
their school but for
their community. It
creates a sense of
belonging.”
Besides
the
competing events,
there be face painting, free barbecue
and music. The
Zone will also be
there.
For more information
please
contact Debbie
Holmes at 250-8800273.

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Sooke sees softball in Saskatoon this summer

Wednesday, May 22, 2013 - SOOKE NEWS MIRROR

Sooke
Soccer Club

Two of B.C.’s top softball contenders come from Sooke

Sooke News Mirror

Of the 15 top fastball
players in B.C., two of
the young men selected
for Team BC hail from

Sooke. Ryan Spence
and Kelby Wittich
will be playing in the
upcoming U21 Men’s
International Softball
Championships happening this year in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan

Come-from-behind viCtory for emCS
StudentS in game againSt teaCherS

pitch. Which he finds
unfortunate, as “fast
pitch can become more
of a pitcher’s game
whereas softball tends
to be more of a team
sport.” It is the collaboration of a strong team
that really appeals to
Kelby.
To which his father,
Doug Wittach, adds,
“Though his goal is to
officiate hockey at the
NHL level one day, his
love is ball and will
always be ball.”
Regardless of the
limited future, two of
Sooke’s finest softball
players will be heading
to Saskatoon this summer to compete against
teams of equally high
calibre. And what the
future holds for these
two talented young
men is anyone’s guess.
Their youth, talent, and
passion for team sports
and leadership can
serve them well.

There's a pivotal and memorable line near the beginning
of the movie, The Hobbit, where Gandolf the Grey
inquires of the unexpecting Bilbo Baggins, "I'm looking
for someone to share in an adventure." Its utterance sets
the story into motion. Throughout the narrative Bilbo blunders along,
impressing no one but scraping by nonetheless. At the end of the day,
Bilbo has an amazing adventure and sets the scene for his nephew’s
story and the ultimate task of saving Middle Earth.
A historian named Matthew records a similar situation
faced by two fishermen many years ago. “As Jesus was
walking beside the Sea of Galilee, he saw two brothers,
Simon called Peter and his brother Andrew. They were
casting a net into the lake, for they were fishermen.
‘Come, follow me,’ Jesus said, ‘and I will make you
fishers of men.’”
‘Peter, I’m looking for someone to share in an adventure.”
The same invitation is extended
to all humanity and the decision
before each of us is huge. It will
change our lives. Am I going to
follow Jesus and live out God’s
plan for my life, or am I going
to just walk away, go about my
business and miss the adventure
Pastor Dwight Geiger
of a lifetime?

Britt Santowski photo

On Thursday, May 16, students from Edward Milne community school squared up against the teachers in a
co-ed basketball competition. The students started slowly and were trailing significantly by the end of the
first half, but they finished the game strong — to thundering applause from the mostly-student onlookers
— with a 46 to 44 victory.

of whom are actively
engaged in baseball.
The other Sooke
player, Ryan Spence,
is also a well-rounded
athlete.
“Ryan has played
basketball for me for
two years at EMCS. As
well he has served as
an assistant coach to
both the senior boys’
and junior boys’ basketball team. Ryan comes
from a fastball family!”
writes Trevor Bligh,
one of Sooke’s accomplished volunteer basket ball coaches. “He’s
a nice kid.”
Outside of playing for Team Canada,
Kelby says there are
limited career opportunities in softball. He
finds, sadly, that interest in the game locally
is waning. The competition for young, active
players is fierce.
“There are a lot of
other sports to choose
from,” Kelby says. This
limits the number of
players who sign up.
Also, he notes, softball tends to be less
respected than fast

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Submitted photo

Kelby Wittich (pictured) and Ryan Spence, both from
Sooke, selected to play on the BC Softball team.

on July 9-14.
According to the
Saskatoon information guide, “The 2013
U21 Men’s International Softball Championships is an event
developed by Softball
Canada and it’s provincial softball organizations across Canada to
provide a competition
for the male U21 classification to replace
the Canada Games Program. This program
was developed to provide a National/International caliber event
to better prepare the
athletes for possible
future National Team
invites.”
In other words, it’s
an incredibly opportunity for two of our
young men.
In conversation with
19-year-old Kelby Wittich, Kelby said he’s
been playing for 13
or 14 years now. His
father, Doug Wittich,
coached
“throughout my entire softball
career,” and managed a
ballpark. Wittich has a
brother and sister, both

SOOKE NEWS MIRROR - Wednesday, May 22, 2013

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Smooth waters at Sooke sailing school

Lis Johansen photo

Nine-year-old Alabama Pedersen at the helm with eight-year-old Tobias Conradi giving the thumbs up in Coopers Cove.

Britt Santowski
Sooke News Mirror

Given our picturesque seaside location, water-safety matters. Especially when
it comes to our children.
The Sooke Sailing
Association will be
offering its second
annual sailing camp
for children between

the ages of six and 14
again this year. Here,
the children will (in
order of priority) have
fun, learn how to be
safe around water, and
learn how to sail.
Last year, the SSA
offered one one-week
camp. It was booked
fully within one week
of announcing the program. Gord Fulcher
of the Sooke Sailing

Association said the
children enjoyed it so
much last year that
most of them have
signed up again for
this year’s camp.
So, this year, they
have increased their
offerings from one
one-week camp up to
three one-week camps,
starting on July 8 and
running for three consecutive weeks (July 8,

15 and 22). The camps
will cost $250 per
child, per week, and
there are subsidies
available.
The camp runs from
9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., and
lessons include both
“classroom” content
and hands-on sailing
experience. A day-inthe-life of a student at
camp would consist of
morning warm-up and

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fun time, sailing on the
water (with life jackets
on of course), lunch,
and a debriefing at the
end of the day.
“There are three
parts to it,” said
Fulcher. “First, the kids
are having fun, and
that’s really important. The second thing
is that they are learning to be safe around
the water. And the
third thing is that they
learn how to sail by
the end of the week.”
Kids attending the
camp will also learn
valuable life skills that
according to Fulcher
include leadership,
teamwork, decisionmaking, crisis management, and “a good
healthy respect for the
waters.”
Fulcher has a longterm vision of inspiring children who want
to continue with sailing as a passion into
aspiring for sailing at
the Olympic level.
For more information about the camp
or the subsidies available, contact Gord
Fulcher at the Sooke
Sailing Association,
778-425-4030.

SPORTS • 29

Kaylee Dorval
receives leaDership
awarD meDal

Submitted photo

Late last month, one of Sooke’s EMCS Rugby players
received a Leadership Award. At the Castaway
Wanderers (CW) 2012/13 Awards Banquet, on
Saturday April 27, 2013, Kaylee Dorval received
a Junior Girls Award. As posted on the awards
website, “Junior Girls Award recipient Kaylee
Dorval confirmed the future is indeed bright for
CW Rugby.”

A public open house will be held on Wednesday, May 29th, 2013 at 7 pm in
the District of Sooke Council Chambers located at 2225 Oter Point Road,
Sooke, BC. The purpose of this meetng is to receive public input on the
proposed of-leash dog park in Ponds Park Corridor located at 2276 Church
Road.
Please contact the District of Sooke at (250) 642-1634 if you have any
questons regarding this project or visit www.sooke.ca for more
informaton and to fill out the online feedback form.

30 • SPORTS

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ATGATT and other cool
motorcycling acronyms

Britt Santowski
THROTTLE
THERAPY
britt@imallowed.com

If you have not yet
logged on to the information highway, you
may have been spared
the inundation of some
really cool acronyms.
In which case, you
may still think that LOL
means Lots of Love, or
that ROFL is a sound
that golden retriever
makes when she’s home
alone, or that LMAO is a
typo for lame-o.
Once you get on the
Internet, you’ll discover
that periodically posting these acronyms help
you look like you know
what you’re doing. Post
ROFLMAO and enjoy
the projection of your
slick savvy.

Sick, isn’t it?
(“Sick,” btw means
“really really cool.”)
The motorcyclist’s
highway is equally littered with some really
cool insider acronyms.
Some are useful and
will save your LIFE (Living Injury Free Everyday); others may just
cause you to laugh (or
cringe, depending on
your perspective).
Really, really cool
people use acronyms.
From the serious to
the ridiculous, here are
a few for you to mull
over.

ATGATT

This acronym stands
for All The Gear, All The
Time. I can’t speak (or
write) enough to this
one. Think of an electric
sander with the roughest grit size imaginable.
Think of turning that
sander on high. And
then consider pressing
that sander, full force,
against your ankle or
wrist bones, knees or
nose. Lastly, think of
what you want to have
between as a buffer
between your soft skin
and that sander. (No,
please don’t try this at

home.)
The second reminder
on this acronym is that it
should apply to anyone
riding with you. If you
love them, care enough
to insist they are duly
bubble-wrapped. And if
you don’t, leave them
on the roadside with
enough bus fare to get
home safely.

Choke: If the weather
or your bike is cold,
you will need to open
the choke.
Some schools teach
FINES, which is the same
except for (you guessed
it) the S, which refers
to the Stand, or kickstand. As I am sure you
guessed, it should be
tucked away for riding.

FINE-C (or FINES)

SEE

This acronym stands
for a starting procedure that has saved me
countless times from
looking stupid. This
matters when your
aspiration, like mine, is
to look cool.
Fuel: Make sure you
have turned the fuel
switch ON, and make
sure you have enough
fuel to ride.
Ignition: Do you have
your key? Looking
good!
Neutral: Is your bike
in neutral? A quick
check is roll your
bike slightly forward,
slightly back with the
clutch out. If your bike
is in gear, it won’t move.
Engine kill switch:
Is it ON? Really, this is
the final check on your
Looking-Cool gauge.

WEDNESDAY, MAY 22, 2013 - SOOKE NEWS MIRROR

The American Motorcycle Safety Foundation uses this acronym
to teach the thought
process that goes along
with active riding:
Search out potential
hazards; Evaluate their
likelihood of impacting
you; Execute your preventative manoeuvre to
avoid said hazard. ICBC
likes to put it in their
own words: See Think
Do. Personally, I think
SEE is sweeter (or,
“sicker”), but maybe
that’s just me.

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Wednesday, May 22, 2013 - SOOKE NEWS MIRROR

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How’s
Fishing?

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Not too good for these anglers who ran into trouble off Owen Point in Port Renfrew last week.
All four people were safely rescued by a Coast Guard helicoptor and the boat was salvaged
later at high tide.
The May long weekend has passed, which
marks the unofficial
opening of the summer
fishing season off Port
Renfrew and Sooke.
Although salmon regulations have slowed
salmon fishing opportunities in Sooke, halibut has been the main
focus for most anglers.
Although
anywhere
past Sheringham Point
anglers can take wild
or hatchery chinooks.
Local Sooke anglers are
continuing to catch nice
sized Halibut in the 15
to 30 pound range. Muir
Creek, in 120 to 180
feet of water, has been
the hot spot as well as
Point No Point and Jor-

dan River. The nice
thing about fishing west
of Sheringham Point —
you can switch over to
salmon with no issues
with over/under size
limits.
Port Renfrew is heating up as well. The Port
Renfrew Marina is open
from now until Thanksgiving weekend for
camping and moorage.
It’s a great place to stay
and they sell fuel, tackle,
bait and the Cook Shack
is open for breakfast
lunch and dinner. The
new Pacific Gateway
Marina should be open
by June 1 and they have
moorage and as well
they sell gas. The government wharf docks

should be in place in
the next week or so with
mostly charter boats.
The great thing about
Renny is that the chinook over/under rule
is not in place which
is nice so when one
catches a nice fish it’s a
keeper. And early season
halibut fishing is very
good anywhere from in
front of Port San Juan or
Sombrio to the east or

Carmanah and beyond
to the west. Until next
time.
Keep your rod tip up!
Kiwi Magic
Want to fish for halibut and
salmon in Sooke? Call West
Isle Fishing Experience 250858-3611.
located in Coopers Cove @ the
Stickleback West Coast Eatery
Want to fish in Port
Renfrew? Trailhead Resort 250647-5468.

TIMES ARE IN STANDARD TIME, HEIGHTS IN FEET
Best fishing time: 1½ hours after high tide.

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Time:
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